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Let It Rain Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    72

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Jaoui neatly, gently, firmly slips political commentary into Let It Rain's articulate mayhem.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Jordan Mintzer

    Despite an initial forecast of smart laughs and witty tete-a-tetes, the French dramedy Let It Rain winds up being a partly cloudy affair that lacks the cohesiveness of Agnes Jaoui's two previous features, "The Taste of Others" and "Look at Me."

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    This is very much an actors' film, not least because director-scripter Agnes Jaoui also appears in front of the camera in the well-seasoned role of Agathe Villanova.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    ReelViews James Berardinelli

    As simple and straightforward a movie as one is likely to find in theaters today.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

    The interview sessions are all disastrous in one way or another; Let It Rain is at its wittiest when Michel flails around, grousing about his own divorce and child custody troubles without ever quite asking his interview subject an actual question

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  • 90

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    Needlessly complicated, life already has more than enough petty dramas. Let It Rain may not be funny in a ha-ha sense, but it gave me an amused open-mouthed appreciation of life's absurdities, including unanticipated nuisances like bad weather.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    This beautifully strange and affecting comedy, which Agns Jaoui directed from a screenplay she wrote with her husband, Mr. Bacri, is about men who are weak and insecure, and one woman, Agathe, played superbly by Ms. Jaoui, coming to terms with the price of being strong.

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